Commentary : Wuer Kaixi / Editor : Jiang Yi / https://www.aboluowang.com/2021/0324/1572298.html / Direct translation / Images : Web Shots
U.S. Secretary of State Blinken pointed out that China has become a threat to the world order, no doubt! This is the clearest political declaration I have heard since Yu Maochun became the Chinese adviser to the State Council. The United States embodies the encouraging fact that no matter which political party is in power, it can sufficiently adhere to the values of freedom and democracy.
However, the world order after World War II was established under the leadership of the United States. From the United Nations, to the Cold War, to non-interventionism where sovereignty is higher than human rights, there are traces of the United States everywhere. And this international order itself has serious flaws, so that although there is no world war that this pattern strives to avoid, it is often at a loss for regional wars, civil wars, and genocide.
The main reason is that the democratic system established two to three hundred years ago is far from being able to cope with the reality of the international society that is hundreds or thousands of times more complicated today when capital and information explode. The expansion of capital has made the disparity between the rich and the poor under globalization increasingly serious. The openness of the democratic system allows capital groups to control politics and foreign policy through the news media, and determine that the interests of capital are higher than the human rights of other countries or even their own countries.
The so-called Engagement Policy that the United States formulated and led the world to pursue is such a product. In fact, it is a policy of buying tickets for specific capital groups for profit and economy under the guise of "national interest" for more than 40 years. Finally, decades later, when I felt that the monster of the CCP became a direct threat to the modern civilization of the world that the global order was trying to maintain, I was willing to admit the so-called misjudgment.
Western countries misjudge China
The first misjudgment is that China's economic development will inevitably foster a huge Chinese middle class, which in turn will naturally give rise to a civil society and democratic system. This misjudgment, I would like to call it naive wishful thinking for the time being, but the second misjudgment is not so pure and innocent, that is, knowing that the results of condoning the CCP will harm the freedom and human rights of the Chinese people, but I believe it will not be right. The world outside China caused direct harm, and it was selfishly letting it go.
Image : It is an obvious misjudgment to think that China's economic development will inevitably foster a huge Chinese middle class. (Thomson Reuters)
When the Chinese Communist Party massacred unarmed peace petitioners on the streets of Beijing more than 30 years ago, the United States decided to let China go, basically forcing Europe, Japan, and Australia to follow the boat along the water and write this capitalist policy. Of course, it’s even more unknown. The persecution of Tibet, Uyghurs, and human rights defenders in China has also reasonably adopted superficial condemnation, but no substantive sanctions. At the same time, it continues to deepen the policy of tolerating and condoning trade.
This policy has nurtured an iron-fisted autocratic dictatorship that has a considerable say in the world economy. This regime not only failed to move toward civil society and democracy, but also turned to its opposite, becoming a world order that relies on modern technology and huge national capital and unscrupulously violates the core values of "freedom, respect, and peace" that the United States and the West are trying to build deliberately and deliberately.
Of course, the rising CCP is not so stupid as to directly promote its authoritarian rule to the world. At first, it did not have the ability, but of course it does everything in China. But this led to the second misjudgment of the United States-China’s perverse harm is really only the Chinese, and will it not truly harm the international community, including the United States?
The first is Uyghur. Today in the 21st century, the CCP has driven millions of its citizens into concentration camps because of differences in ethnicity, culture, language, and religion, which basically shocked the core values of that international order. The voices of sensitive international media and civil organizations have made Western governments that rely on voters to gain political status face unprecedented embarrassment for their long-term China policy, and they are completely unable to justify their claims.
Then came Hong Kong, a city that was once a part of the free world and an important and beautiful link. More than 20 years after its return to the Chinese Communist Party, millions of citizens took to the streets unyieldingly and fought stubbornly. This makes it a bit difficult for the West, who has turned one eye and closed one eye to China, to continue the ostrich mentality.
Next, let the Western countries headed by the United States realize that the complete failure of the Chinese policy over the years is the global ravages of the new crown pneumonia and China's performance in this process-concealing, suppressing dissent and whistling, and choking the epidemic prevention production supply chain , Vaccine Diplomacy, Spreading Money to Host Multi-Country and International Organizations. These are the direct results of many years of appeasement policy. Raising tigers is a problem, and this problem is the direct pain suffered by my family and friends in the countryside.
Image : Western countries have realized that this growing economy will in fact simply not abide by the world order established by the liberal democratic camp for decades and for its long-term growth. (Thomson Reuters)
The CCP lacks the adjustment mechanism of a democratic country
Of course, China’s expansion hegemony in the Belt and Road Initiative, manipulation of the RMB exchange rate, theft of Western technology and intellectual assets, establishment of market barriers, and many other aspects have made the West realize that this growing economy does not actually abide by freedom and democracy. The camp has been absorbing the world order established by the camp for decades and has grown for a long time.
But at this time, the CCP has also been riding on the power expansion, insatiable greed, lack of the adjustment mechanism of a democratic country, and years of nationalist propaganda. Xi Jinping and Wang Yi should also know that the Spokesperson of the Wolf Warriors of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is actually a few lunatics who set China on fire under a high platform that is opposed to the West, causing themselves trouble, but I believe the CCP has no mechanism to adjust their tone. And courage.
These lunatics kept saying that the Western hostile forces "injured the feelings of the Chinese people." They did not realize that their speeches also hurt the feelings of the American people, Canadian people, Europe, Japan, and the entire free world. These countries are democratic countries and people’s feelings. Feelings will become votes, and will become an important force for adjusting these international Chinese policies.
The CCP's handy cards are over
Although seeing the threat from China has also allowed Western countries to experience Uyghur, Hong Kong, and the new crown pneumonia in the past two years, these democracies have a sense of urgency that China’s policies must be adjusted, but after all, the long-term appeasement policy has plunged them deeply into the Chinese market. It is difficult to extricate themselves from the quagmire of trade and face extremely high adjustment thresholds. However, these war wolves have been forcing the pros and cons in the field of American foreign policy to oppose each other. These proponents and factions must make the top decision-making leaders ignore the few speakers, and the madness of those few has become a good explanation-their rhetoric is for the Chinese people, and does not represent the core position of the Communist Party. But Yang Jiechi and Wang Yi's remarks to Blinken are hard to say, are they acting? The efforts of the Zhuhe faction lost their foundation in the arrogance of these two core CCP officials.
It should be said that Wang Yang's performance was a step in the decision to allow the United States to lead the Western camp to adjust China's policy. This is why we see Blinken’s proposal that China seriously threatens the international order. The democratic alliance he proposed is also a clue that the United States wants to adjust its team, adjust its strategy, and regain control of the world order.
The world situation has changed. The Chinese Communist Party relied on the old Chinese policy of the Western countries headed by the United States to be quick and easy to play.
※The author is an honorary director of the Uyghurs, Reporters Without Borders, a Chinese pro-democracy activist who has settled down in Taiwan, and a pro-democracy activist of June Fourth
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